Eckhart Tolle Quotes

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

How did they know?.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.